Award year: 2015
Category: Scholarship / Grant
Type: ERC Consolidator Grant
Awarding organization: Europäischer Forschungsrat (ERC)
Fuel cells can be used to generate electricity from hydrogen and air. Chemist Bastian Etzold is researching into improved catalysts for such fuel cells. He coats the catalysts with ionic fluids, and has achieved a significant increase in performance as a result. Bastian Etzold received the ERC Grant at TU Darmstadt.